Co-Creator of Smoking Gun Website and Alumni to Speak Nov. 15

11/02/06

Danny Green ’85, co-creator of the Smoking Gun Website, will give a lecture titled “Google Isn't Everything” on Wednesday, Nov. 15. The Smoking Gun is known for featuring celebrity mug shots and court documents.

Danny Green ’85, Co-Creator of the Smoking Gun Website
Lecture: “Google Isn't Everything”
Followed by Question-and-Answer Session
Wednesday, Nov. 15
7:30 p.m.
Park Auditorium

The talk will focus on how inexperienced investigative journalists rely too much on the Internet and not enough on the telephone.

Sponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications. The lecture is part of the Park Scholars’ Tenth Anniversary Speaker Series, made possible by the Park Foundation.

Danny Green:

Before Danny Green co-created The Smoking Gun web site, he was a freelance journalist and editor who wrote for GQ, The Village Voice, New York magazine, Sports Illustrated, Ski and about 500 other publications.

He started The Smoking Gun with two business partners in 1997. The site, utilizing investigative reporting techniques and original source material such as police reports, court files, FBI dossiers and mug shots, has broken hundreds of stories that have been picked up by newspapers and television outlets around the world. Among our most well-known scoops: posting the sealed grand jury testimony in the Michael Jackson child molestation case, proving that "A Million Little Pieces" author James Frey had fabricated significant portions of his memoir and reporting that Rick Rockwell, the "prize" groom of Fox's "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire" once had a restraining order filed against him by his fiancée, who claimed Rockwell threatened to kill her.

Court TV purchased The Smoking Gun in 2000. It now receives about 40 million page views per month. The Dog Dialed 911, the second Smoking Gun book, was released by Little, Brown in October.

Danny now acts as the site's director of development as well as working as an editor at courttv.com. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

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